Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
49
result(s) for
"Welsh Migrations."
Sort by:
Imperial Intimacies : A Tale of Two Islands
\"A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh mother, but to untangle knots the British Empire created across the Atlantic. Tracing the skeins of this knotted past through the method of 'autohistory,' Imperial Intimacies charts empire's violent interweaving of lives and states, Jamaica and Britain, capital and bodies, public language and private feeling. In so doing, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know\"-- Provided by publisher.
BOOK
Immigrant trajectories through the rural-industrial transition in Wales and the United States, 1795-1850
This essay offers the first detailed geographical analysis of Welsh emigration and settlement in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. The analysis is based upon the wealth of geographical and historical information contained in 1,771 immigrant obituaries. They show that Welsh emigration was a predominantly rural phenomenon up to mid-century, although emigration from industrial South Wales had begun by 1830 and important industrial settlements were well-established in the States by 1850. These data also reveal distinctive regional historical geographies of emigration. The second half of the essay compares the spatial and social characteristics of rural and industrial migration by tracing patterns of internal migration in Wales and the United States and by examining the life-paths of four individual migrants. This evidence suggests that many rural Welsh had some contact with industry and that their transition from an agricultural to an industrial way of life was more complex and prolonged than other studies have shown. In conclusion, the essay points to the need for further study of the rural-industrial transition as a key aspect of the development of capitalism in rural places.
Journal Article
Immigrant Trajectories through the Rural-Industrial Transition in Wales and the United States, 1795-1850
This essay offers the first detailed geographical analysis of Welsh emigration and settlement in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. The analysis is based upon the wealth of geographical and historical information contained in 1,771 immigrant obituaries. They show that Welsh emigration was a predominantly rural phenomenon up to mid-century, although emigration from industrial South Wales had begun by 1830 and important industrial settlements were well-established in the States by 1850. These data also reveal distinctive regional historical geographies of emigration. The second half of the essay compares the spatial and social characteristics of rural and industrial migration by tracing patterns of internal migration in Wales and the United States and by examining the life-paths of four individual migrants. This evidence suggests that many rural Welsh had some contact with industry and that their transition from an agricultural to an industrial way of life was more complex and prolonged than other studies have shown. In conclusion, the essay points to the need for further study of the rural-industrial transition as a key aspect of the development of capitalism in rural places.
Journal Article
Strangers in Blood
Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals. Arguing that, in early modern discourse, the concept of race was primarily linked with notions of bloodline, lineage, and genealogy rather than with skin colour and ethnicity, Jean E. Feerick establishes that the characterization of settler communities as subject to degenerative decline constituted a massive challenge to the fixed system of blood that had hitherto underpinned the English social hierarchy.
Considering contexts as diverse as Ireland, Virginia, and the West Indies, Strangers in Blood tracks the widespread cultural concern that moving out of England would adversely affect the temper and complexion of the displaced individual, changes that could be fought only through willed acts of self-discipline. In emphasizing the decline of blood as found at the centre of colonial narratives, Feerick illustrates the unwitting disassembling of one racial system and the creation of another.
eBook
Seasonal genetic variation and genetic structure of Spodoptera exigua in Liaoning Province, Northeast China: insights from 11 years of microsatellite data
The beet armyworm (BAW),
, is a destructive migratory pest worldwide that has caused severe economic losses in China's major crop-producing regions. To control this pest effectively, it is crucial to investigate its seasonal genetic variation and population genetic structure in northern China.
In this study, we used eight nuclear microsatellite loci to investigate the seasonal genetic variation and genetic structure of BAW in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Northeast China, from 2012-2022, collected from a single location on Welsh onion.
Microsatellite data revealed moderate levels of genetic variation among 50 seasonal populations of BAW sampled from 2012-2022, along with significant genetic differentiation among these populations. Neighbor-joining dendrograms, STRUCTURE analysis, and principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) revealed two genetically distinct groups: the SY2012-2018 group and the SY2019-2022 group. Our results revealed seasonal variation in the genetic subconstruction at this location, which may be related to the presence of different migratory individuals throughout the year. Accordingly, our unique insights into the population genetics of BAW will contribute to the development of effective management strategies for this migratory pest.
Journal Article
Climate change, interrupted : representation and the remaking of time
In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century through our current moment, her interdisciplinary treatment of climate change at once rethinks time and illustrates that the time for climate action is now.
Climate Change, Interrupted argues that linear, progress-inflected temporalities are not adequate to a crisis that defies their terms. Instead, this book advances a theory and practice of interruption to rethink prevailing temporal frameworks. At the same time, it models the anachronistic, time-blending, and time-layering temporality it advances. In a series of experimental chapters informed by the unlikely trio of Walter Benjamin, Donna Haraway, and Virginia Woolf, Leckie reinflects and cowrites the traditions and knowledges of the long nineteenth century and the current period in the spirit of climate action collaboration.
The current moment demands as many approaches as possible, invites us to take risks, and asks scholars and activists adept at storytelling to participate in the conversation. Climate Change, Interrupted, accordingly, invests in interruption to tell a different story of the climate crisis.
eBook
Language policy, in-migration and discursive debates in Wales
Drawing on theory from critical language policy literature, this article explores the impact of discourses on in-migration on Welsh language policy. By focussing on discursive debates surrounding the subject of in-migration, the article analyses how a range of actors produce and reproduce discourses on in-migration in Wales and how these discursive struggles impact on policy. It argues that, while certain actors have been able to construct a powerful discourse on in-migration through language debates, others have failed to make their voices heard and their views on the subject have been silenced. This unequal access to the production of discourse is not incidental; it is indicative of wider power structures at play within bilingual or multilingual language communities. Therefore, while the study focusses on Wales, the article highlights a theme that is relevant to all minoritized language groups, that of the interrelationship between policy, politics and power. It also stresses the importance of adopting an approach to language policy that takes into account both structure and agency alike, and confirms that language groups should not be conceptualised by number of speakers using categories such as ‘dominant’, ‘subordinate’, ‘majority’ and ‘minority’, but rather by issues of power and status.
Journal Article
Alien Albion
Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Oldenburg uncovers how immigrants to England forged ties with their English hosts and how those relationships were reflected in literature that imagined inclusive, multicultural communities.
Through discussions of civic pageantry, the plays of dramatists including William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Middleton, the poetry of Anne Dowriche, and the prose of Thomas Deloney, Alien Albion challenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class, and local identities in the early modern era.
eBook
Contesting sub-state integration policies: migrant new speakers as stakeholders in language regimes
This paper aims to illuminate the role of sub-state languages in the integration process of migrants in two sub-state regions: Wales in the UK and the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain. We investigate how language and the idea of ‘belongingess’ based on language learning and knowledge are constructed in the integration policies in these two officially bilingual regions. We analyse policy documents on the topic of integration of migrants in the respective state and sub-state regions, as well as exploring how the role of language is in turn understood, accepted or contested by migrants. Using ethnographically oriented methods of enquiry such as observations of linguistic practices as well as semi-structured interviews with migrant learners of Welsh and Basque, this analysis seeks to contribute to the growing field of LPP as a multifaceted area of study, and in this case, position migrants as agents in policy-making processes. We find that despite distinctive and ambiguous roles ascribed to the respective official languages of each region, migrant new speakers ascribe certain values and roles to each language, which are not necessarily acknowledged or envisaged as such in integration policies. We propose that taking the voice of migrant new speakers learners into account would improve language and integration policymaking in these two sub-state regions and help to redefine the role of language resources in national ‘belongingess’ according to the needs of the stakeholders involved.
Journal Article
The welsh in an Australian gold town
Works which have sought to look specifically at the Welsh in Australia have been few in number and characterised by a concentration on prominent individuals and cultural/religious societies, thus excluding many facets of immigrant life. This book provides an analysis of the Welsh immigrant community in the Ballarat/Sebastopol gold mining district of Victoria, Australia during the second half of the nineteenth century and considers all aspects of the Welsh immigrant experience. As its focus, the book has the Welsh migrant group as a whole, in one particular area, during one period of time, for ultimately it was the migrants themselves who were responsible for the strength or weakness of Welsh religious life, the success or failure of Welsh cultural institutions; they who decided whether or not to retain and transmit their national language if, indeed, they spoke it in the first place; they who chose whether or not to marry within their own group, to live amongst their own, to retain the ties of Welshness and pass on the values of the Old Country, or to attempt full and immediate integration; they who were miners or shop owners, abstainers or drunkards, law abiding or criminal. A true picture of Welsh immigrant life can only be obtained by considering the community in its entirety, to view it in the round, as it were. This work attempts to do just that and hopes to make some small contribution to the understanding of what it was to be one amongst the thousands of Welsh people who lived in a particular place at a certain time in a land so far from Wales.
eBook